Quotes by : Shirley Chisholm

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin....

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society....

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a....

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for....

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere....

It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is....

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of....